Confluence

On today's newscast: The Navajo Nation Council has designated the Confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers as a sacred site, the FBI has set a minimum $25,000 reward for help solving some cold cases in which people went missing or were killed on tribal lands, the Navajo Nation Council unanimously voted to remove the tribe’s acting attorney general Kris Beecher, and more.

An explorer who has paddled a raft on a series of rivers across the West shares his experiences and appreciation of nature in a new collection of essays.…